skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As both I and the parent said, "If you have multiple instances".

In which case, locks (like those mentioned in the article) don't work. Because instance A reads 0, instance B reads 0, instance A writes 50, instance B writes 50. Totally serialized on each instance, totally unpredictable in when they hit the DB.

Just like you have a lock serving as a synchronization point on an instance, in the case of multiple instances, you want to push the synchronization point down into a single instance at the data layer (which you often have when using a traditional RDBMS). But RDBMS' don't have locks, per se, for that synchronization; they have transactions that serve a similar purpose.

But, regardless of where that synchronization is, you have to ensure the update logic stays there. Having an interface that loads data, and saves data, at the application layer, ensures that a DB layer lock won't work, either. You have to change it to have the DB actually read and update the data to benefit from the synchronization the DB transaction provides you.

So, as I said before...a lock (at the application layer) is neither sufficient nor necessary. A DB transaction (with the implied update of the query necessary to make a transaction mean anything) is both.
It’s Aviation Gas

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas
I don't think viraptor meant free, but rather that for the ongoing maintenance to be worth it for them, they'd have to charge a price that'd be too high for it to make sense for the customer, especially when "others can do it better and cheaper".
Spying is something nearly every single person I know can get behind, on the left or right. I’ve never seen it bleed into real life lack of trust.

Everything else on the other hand: https://news.yahoo.com/ex-gop-pollster-frank-luntz-172755768...

> “Bret, I couldn't control them. They just started yelling at each other, and it would take me two minutes to say to them, 'stop' - to put my hand up to the camera like I did right there for them to get control of themselves," Luntz said
Also concept2 owner. I think it's a miss not having some offering for existing rowers--these are not cheap devices, most people love their current one, and concept2's build quality has created a huge moat for them.

Better to compete on software/integration instead of hardware as it makes your offering a niche player in an already niche market.
Interesting. Imagine if Apple sent an update to EOL hardware that effectively "jailbroke" them for you.

"Out of the garden! Go free!"
Have you tried Hydrow? Is it similar?
with the small asterisk that this mechanism only works for repos where one has sufficient privileges to be able to create a webhook, and that doesn't square up with the original title of "a file on GitHub"
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The trick is I never expect anything to be 100% right, or even 90% right. Even if they promise to be 100% right.

Either accept that it can broke or always have a backup plan.

>then what happens if the company who made your implant goes out of business?

The company goes out of business doesn't always mean the product stop working anymore.

If the product stop working then I'll look for removal/replacement.
You beat me to it. Any time someone mentions an electric plane the MJ/Kg jumps to mind.

Until battery energy density increases by an order of magnitude electric planes aren’t going to happen, at least commercially.
There are proposals on how to make the system more secure to this attack without eliminating anonymity. However I believe they would all eliminate same day registration.
The primary source is [0].

[0] https://psyche.co/ideas/the-mathematical-case-against-blamin...
Baseless means that there is no proof of the allegations. Dominion is under no obligation to prove the that the election was fair. Guiliani now have the opportunity through discovery to support his allegations, or at least the was in good faith. If he fails to do so he risk being on the hook for $1B+.

It is curious that of all his public allegations against Dominion, he never asserted those in court. He is a lawyer and is aware of the consequences of asserting false accusations or frivolous suits in court. No doubt he will point to Sidney Powell and claim he was in good faith.

Most of the claims he made were pretty outlandish, and IMO he (especially as a lawyer) should now better. This is going to be interesting.

He publicly claimed that the Dominion machines "switched votes" even after the hand-count in Georgia confirmed that the machine count had indeed been accurate.
> If you'd rather believe Fox News than scientists who are telling you this is much worse than the flu...

Scientists say it is much worse than the flu. For the vast majority who actually experience the disease, it is not much worse than the flu. Thus, people start to mistrust the science because there's a disparity between the statistics on paper and what people actually experience in reality. I think most people understand now that covid is basically like the flu 99% of the time, and much worse than the flu for a tiny subset (and for the most part, the tiny subset can self-identify).
Put up a summary, please, so we don't have to listen to half an hour of someone talking.
I think that must be an oversimplification. Fort Worth just to the north is growing at the same speed as Austin. My house has doubled in value in the last 11 years. Yet, Fort Worth is extremely anti-homeless in its city ordinances and we don't have a visible homeless problem. As Fort Worth is a giant city in a warm climate I am sure there is a homeless problem, but we residents don't have to see it.
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Not if they're well designed, if the security of the system depends on it's function being completely secret it's not secure.
I donate money to the EFF regularly, but their click-baity hysteria annoys me too.
> Firefox Send

What a letdown to see this service so quickly retired.
Worse yet, while the government may be banned from looking at this data intrusively. We're likely to freely give it away to a few large tech companies. Without limits on their use, their power will only continue to grow.

To me the primary issue of our day at this moment, is we have no users bill of rights. We are forced to use the services of large tech companies to participate in modern life yet there are few restrictions on their powers.

It's bad enough when it's our written thoughts. But the idea that it can be my unwritten thoughts too... that scares the heck out of me.
Hmm, at least, it's way easier to put extra rotors where you want them to be, since you don't need a gearbox + transmission from the main engine, and can just put a secondary, smaller electric engine.

Crosswind is really less of an issue near the ground, so you could first lower your altitude and precisely adjust later.
Perfectly sound architecture that does not need an intermediary like Netflify:

1. Browser-Side Service Worker

2. Git - mutable file system via REST

3. CDN - deploy to multiple CDNs

I didn't look at the code but I suspect it could be made to be isomorphic and run in Cloudflare Workers but the code surrounding credentials used for Git and CDN access probably needs to distinguish between the browser-side and server-side.
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There is regular flights between the mainland and the island, and a more environmentally friendly option would get traction in the market even with a price premium.
It makes me sad to say, but I do not believe any evidence will convince unbelievers about the things they are told not to believe.
I can't tell if you're joking or not but this clearly already exists via HTTP headers.
I think this only works if you have admin on the repo.
No one buys those though

https://carsalesbase.com/us-chevrolet-spark/

What % of new car sales are under 20k? 5% maybe?
Also sometimes the "lanes" that form on the road can cross the center divider to the oncoming lane, which is really dangerous if you're not paying attention. I almost hit an oncoming semi-truck just one day because of this. It's an example of a rare edge case.
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Howdy. I'm the tech lead on Relay. We're working on replies right now:

https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/pull/770
I think that approach is just at odds with the concept of federation. What you're describing just sounds like reddit to me.
I'm not familiar with the specific model of seaplane referenced here, but 100LL avgas is commonly used in small planes (and the LL stands for low-lead)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas
> I cannot consistently write safe C/C++ code.

There's a pretty big ecosystem of tools and techniques beyond just the compiler for writing safe code. Unfortunately, they all have usability issues, so the burden of writing safe programs often falls almost entirely on the individual.
Proof of your statement? Have a memo or email that says “Tim, I suggest we only include 2 ports so we can drive up the sales of thunderbolt docks (oh, we should maybe make one too, so we can take more money, because we don’t right now).”

You comment attributes the design to malice with zero proof and Apple does not even make an external thunderbolt dock to make money on.
Skilled emmigration to where? Europe, Britain, and Canada have as much if not more hindrances, no?
For a detailed study of learned indexes, see this work: https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol14/p1-marcus.pdf

All code is available in open source: https://github.com/learnedsystems/SOSD
I have very little direct experience with the UX specialization, although one could argue that everyone is somehow involved in it, I never worked directly with a UX Designer[0].

If you squint, you can recognize this approach as an iterative specification for a product or a set of related products.

Some interesting take-aways for me:

- UX seems to put a lot of value on visualizing data, thought and processes in different forms. They range from simple, ad-hoc, to quite involved.

- A huge part of this work revolves around communication and testing: getting the right feedback and then analyzing it.

- In software, they should probably be directly talking to engineers and UI designers, to provide the right set of problems to solve. This is maybe a good way to cut off management hierarchies that understand neither (users and implementation).

[0] I've also seen the term "Engineer", "Architect" and others associated with it, but from talking to a UX "Architect" from a large company, I found that the best description would be "Designer" or "Director", because even though there are sometimes data-driven inputs their bread and butter seem to be very design, and communication focused. Maybe "Analyst" is a good term too.
I think that the startups like plaid who enabled quick easy bank deposits, has opened the flood gates of saving accounts into the market.
I'm happy that HN has accepted a change in the article's title, which appears as "Google says it may have found a privacy-friendly substitute to cookies." This terminology -- "found" -- has been used by Google and others to imply that their capture of behavioral "exhaust" is somehow a natural phenomenon, rather than a conscious, deliberate, profit-driven choice. Google didn't "find" a substitute. They are developing it because they are getting pushback from users and companies who object to their tracking methods and they're desperate to find something that convinces users they've Really Changed This Time.

Don't fall for it. Break up with Google. They are abusive.
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Since there are probably specialists out there, can you answer me a question?

Since these vaccines are targeting spike proteins, shouldn't they work with every variant? Is there (big) risk of a mutation actually changing the spike protein?
I wonder how long it’s going to take for media companies to realize Trump isn’t their golden goose anymore for ad revenue.
How do I generate traffic and make good money through ads from my website?
This was my query - it’s almost impossible to replace the concept 2, as it’s the de facto standard for splits and 2k times etc.

Add to that, I recall us racing the ergs on a virtual lake on a tv as far back as 2000 or so - made doing 2ks way more interesting, as you could compete with the rest of the crew directly.
And I 100% respect your approach and consider it logical and sound.

That said, it's not for me, and not for many, many other people for whom a car is not just a reliable appliance to go from point A to point B with minimal fuss and minimal financial expenditure.

Which is why even brands with horrific reliability and depreciation like Alfa Romeo still sells.
Apparently they were supposed to be phased out by 2018 but it's been delayed: https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=1...
As the quote goes

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

Not that the GME stock is necessarily being traded on an irrational basis at the moment - I haven't done any research on it - but I think people need to remember that a lot of the inexperienced robinhood traders are just engaging in speculative gambling, and knowingly or not, pump and dump schemes.
His salary is related to Title 42, which is part of the federal salary regulations allowing for higher salaries for certain public health positions.

I'm not sure what it's like for long-tenured Federal employees, but I know that at the State and Municipal level, sometimes things like pensions or retirement healthcare make compensation better than they appeared. (For newer Federal employees, the pension sucks so it's not such a big deal)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125320570827920075

This is just drama ginned up. There used to be a congressman from Texas who'd make noise about this program back in the Bush/Obama days. For specialized medical people where tenure and experience matter, you absolutely need to have a way to compensate appropriately. Lawyers can pop in and out of service, but someone like Fauci needs to be an employee vs. contractor and benefits from long tenure.
Yea. No joke. I literally offered $25K on top to push our delivery up 4 weeks (beats flying it all over). They felt so disrespected I was ashamed.
This 11% number really hides the reality. You are comparing what amounts to a luxury car to basically tiny city car that cost like 10% of the Tesla.

If you look at revenue in that market it is a far larger number.

Tesla in general in terms of BEV is about 28% of the global market and more if you consider revenue. In Europe the largest competitor to the Model 3 is also a cheaper city car.

Tesla is doing very well and has been growing market share globally every year.
Uhh, the Kandi is an NEV. Not allowed on highways, speed limited to 25-35MPH by law, and has nowhere near the safety and crash test requirements of a 'real' car. For comparison, NEVs are normally literal golf carts with bigger motors.
You're right that this example is better solved without mutexes, but it's good that the article is introducing the concept to NodeJS devs who may not be used to it. Heck, I used mutexes extensively for years in C code and even I didn't know they were an option.

That said, mutexes are also not always wrong. Compare-and-swap is good, ensuring atomicity is good, but sometimes a mutex is what you need, especially if you're fixing legacy code with concurrency issues.
They used mechanical voting machines when I was a kid, and I don't recall elections ever being this "buggy." Damn nerds.
Yes she claims the election was stolen. Her words.

The Capital Hill attack was partially a result of unchecked claims from Dems and left-leaning media claiming Trump was an illegitimate President. Somehow people here think that's ok while Rudy/Trump's claims are not. Smh.
I dunno. It's worse than flu for more than 1%, about 1% die from it. A much larger proportion need to be hospitalized than from flu in a normal flu season.
I love the idea of adding some way to have crowd bias and not all mlent alone curating. Not that I think you’ll be corrupt, but more that popular opinion is _often_ good.
> I don't think big business and the public will tolerate losing another season

The whole "COVID fatigue" thing is one of the craziest things I keep hearing with regard to this pandemic. The virus doesn't care if you're bored of the disease and "won't tolerate" staying home from more football games. It's not like it's just going to go away because we're tired of it! I sincerely hope governments aren't going to just open things up because 2021 is a different year and everyone's just really bummed of it all. Surely we have better sense than that.
How is this software different than Ergatta (https://ergatta.com/)? Do you offer the ability to connect the tablet to another device like a Concept2 rower?
Apple is currently the only company in the fitness world that can afford to force hardware and software coupling. You are not Apple.

Peloton, which you compare yourself to, allows me to use my Life Fitness bike with their platform, and they even charge me about 70% less than they charge their own bike buyers.

Hopefully this will soon sink in, there is a huge market of people who already invested thousands in their workout gear, and all they need is your platform. Plus its always interesting to hear how usable the hardware is, if I stop paying or if your platform goes offline. Every company handles this a bit differently
Yes, security by obfuscation is not good but imagine a bad actor discovers a bug and by the time the bug gets discovered and patched they could do a lot of harm in an election. Somehow I agree with the idea of making the code public only with the idea in mind that it gets scrutinized my more eyeballs but since we're talking about elections maybe this changes the perspective a bit?
It doesn't really work like that. Some humans are likely completely off grid and not on record anywhere.
Seeing 1950's America is heartbreaking for me. I grew up in the 90s, and I never saw a trusted society.

https://www.radiogunk.com/forums/index.php?threads/1950s-ame...

Where's the broken glass? The needles, the poop? The stumbling drunks harassing the young women? The masses of tents where children used to play?

What the fuck has happened to us?
Not sure if you've read up on recent developments in Ethereum, but in case you haven't, check out proof of stake [1]. Basically, POS lets people put their money on the line for consensus rather than let people only participate in consensus by solving hard computation problems.

[1] https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/staking/
I think he's saying that people here won't be "persuaded" by Scott Adams sourced information, as he is well known as a self-described purveyor of exaggerated and misleading information.
I don't see taboola chumboxes with ublock on the "block all" setting, with FF, and gradually allow JS elements if needed. I used to like doing this with NoScript.

Sometimes I have to change browser for banking or specific shopping, and I have separate (non uBlock) browsers that i use strictly for work.

Reading the high level dislike of taboola, I wonder what is preventing people from using uBlock to zap Taboola?
> Crosswind is really less of an issue near the ground

Crosswind is a bigger issue near the ground.

Yes, winds are slower at ground level, but the ground, and a crash into it is also closer!
Rank-and-file government jobs have less risk than private sector jobs. Part of the reason the private sector pays more is because it has to compensate for that risk.
Are you aware "aviron" means "airplane" in Hebrew?
Not if they are secure. In the security community, if the integrity of the platform requires information about the platform to be secret, it's not secure.

The keys should be secure, but the design of algorithms and implementation of the system should not be.
It's just a domain, man, chill, don't let it drag you down. Why should you feel so strongly about transient things? It's just a name...
My experience validates this. Here's what I need:

* have a few incoming, simple IVRs in different languages (with local numbers via FlyNumber) a la "press 1 for sales, press 2 for support, or wait for an operator".

* route these calls to the appropriate people (either with a ring group or any other workable option that allows people to get a call on their phone)

What's the correct service for this? RingCentral wants to bill me for named seats, which seems absurd to me when we get ~20 calls a week.
Coz there is a significant risk of penalty, of jail time. That's what a sworn affidavit is, is it not?
> It replaced R for data wrangling in my stats programs

Do you find it faster?

I have good experiences with J due to its terseness, but I'm curious why scientists still use R/Python - is it just inertia? Libraries/FFI?
100 low-lead is a common aviation fuel. Most small aircraft use it. Piston engines generally use that, while jets of course use jet fuel. There are piston engine that run on jet fuel (often diesel), but they are rare and just starting to come out.

I don't know about sea planes though. My guess is they use lead because that is the best educated guess.

edit: others are claiming that these planes are mostly turboprops which would then use lead free jet fuel.
Harbor Air and Kenmore Air both fly a bunch of turboprops around the Pacific Northwest, I see them all the time ...

Only one of planes listed in Harbor Air’s fleet is a piston:
https://www.harbourair.com/about/aircraft-fleet/
I work in UX so I'm poorly equipped to objectively evaluate whether the field's jargon is any better or worse than any other field.

But my impression is that UX jargon is usually pretty self-explanatory but sometimes unnecessary e.g. I'm not sure we really needed to come up with new terms for "sensemaking" (adding meaning), "microcopy" (labels), "responsive" (adaptive), "design thinking" (thinking), etc.
In my opinion, it’s going to highlight how society has shifted to a reality where the vast majority of parents can’t properly look out for their children.
> Microsoft provided security patches for Windows XP for 14 years.

Yes, business vs. consumer. Microsoft had, I imagine, powerful clients that were still on Windows XP.

The consumer space is a much more dynamic space. As it would happen, it has been about 15 years since the first iPhone. I would be surprised if there were someone still wanting to use that device. (I mean, un-ironically.)

Also too, the smart phone was a new market and the "Cold War" between Android and Apple meant change was harried (is that the proper use of that word?). "Move fast and break things" was certainly evident on both sides.

Now though, as the market has matured, I would hope all players slow down a bit and look to extend the lifetime of their hardware/software.
I don't think that's so weird. Sure, they had the same writer and character designer, but the themes were somewhat different. I mean, even though the movies shared the same director, not everyone who likes the Terminator also likes Avatar, etc.
Heh, thanks for the link, there's a certain dark enjoyment in seeing Luntz reap what he has sown.
I think Hydrow is an awesome product. They've built something great, but very different. They focus on longer aerobic (cardio) workouts led by instructors, while we focus on anaerobic workouts that are intense, short, have high resistance, and in the from of video games, live races, and strength programs.